Blue Note Records: The Biography by Richard Cook Pimlico, £10 Jazz scholar Cook's aim is to explore the "mystique" of the record label rather than provide a history. The story begins with 78s ...

Note: Hamid Dabashi’s new book, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012) has just been published by Zed in London. The following is an excerpt from this book, exclusively on Al Jazeera. The ...

For over a hundred years, the study of International Relations (IR) has been shaped by a handful of big ideas about how the world works. These ideas were developed in European and American ...

Perhaps more than any other field, postcolonial studies has, since its inception, been the site of anxious and often polemical debates about what have been perceived ­ even by many postcolonial ...

Toronto scholar Jessica Langer has just published a fascinating book called Postcolonialism and Science Fiction. In this excerpt from the book’s introduction, she defines what that means, and explores ...

The uncertainty about the status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir has loomed large since 1947. Is Jammu and Kashmir a postcolonial state? Postcolonialism refers to a historical phase undergone by ...

The field known collectively as “postcolonialism” – which encompasses various research approaches and discursive arenas – is currently under sustained attack. This is no accident. Many observers were ...

In his new book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings across the Middle East have finally put an end to postcolonialism, and that we must now re-imagine the geopolitics of the region.